{"id":203749,"date":"2015-06-09T04:00:09","date_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=203749"},"modified":"2015-06-09T04:00:09","modified_gmt":"2015-06-08T18:00:09","slug":"france-to-host-pacific-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/france-to-host-pacific-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"France to host Pacific summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WELLINGTON, New Zealand<\/strong> (RNZI\/PIR)\u2014The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, has invited the leaders of Pacific Island countries to a summit in Paris at the end of this year to coincide with the COP 21 climate conference.<\/p>\n<p>The summit is aimed to strengthen ties and help the French territories integrate into the region, notably to become full members of the Pacific Islands Forum.<\/p>\n<p>France has so far hosted three summits with Pacific leaders: two chaired by President Jacques Chirac in 2003 and 2006 and one, in 2009, by the then-foreign minister Bernard Kouchner.<\/p>\n<p>The Paris summit is also to raise climate change challenges which were highlighted last year when the French president, Francois Hollande, visited New Caledonia.<\/p>\n<p>Valls has also announced that he plans to visit New Caledonia, but has given no date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WELLINGTON, New Zealand (RNZI\/PIR)\u2014The French prime minister, Manuel Valls, has invited the leaders of Pacific&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[398,465,165,5214],"class_list":["post-203749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pacific","tag-france","tag-new-caledonia","tag-new-zealand","tag-wellington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}